“You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.” StillsMatterFactsAmericaEnergyLeftProductionsDeeperOilHolesAlternativesHillsPermanentDeclineRefugeReverseShelvesWildlifeDiggingDrillsArcticContinentalOil Production Author:Roscoe Bartlett
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” PeopleFeelsChildrenHandsAmericaLostInterestAbilityDarknessIssuesAuthorityCriticalFeel GoodMy ChildrenAgendasFacultyDeclineSuperstitionsTechnologicalGrandchildrenSlidesCrystalsNoticingRepresentingConsultingPublic InterestForebodingHoroscopes Author:Carl Sagan
“Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.” MadeMomentsAgeAmericaFallNovelBearsTransformationJazzExcellenceEdgesManifestDeclineHarbingerJazz Age Book:Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Source: Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby